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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up.

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.

If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.